Thread by @EddieDu5

😯 Wilhelm II once described the French and English in a racial diatribe as "not Whites at all but Blacks" while Jesus of Nazareth, he claimed, "had never been a Jew." 
reviews.history.ac.uk/review/47

The Kaiser also believed in a international conspiracy of Jewish capitalists and communists... conspiracy of Jewish freemasons, so that in exile in Holland his anti-Semitism reached fever pitch.

Germans paid around 42 million marks in taxes for courts within the Kaiserreich annually.

The British meanwhile paid only 1/4 of that for a court which was the centre of a world empire.

Such racist and racialist rhetoric is offensive, but the thought patterns were hardly unique to the German elite.
jstor.org/stable/2373644…

At the same time, Röhl admits that none of Wilhelm’s bombastic wishes were actually carried out at the time.

“Röhl has demonstrated that there is place for close examination of historical actors, their feelings, and their personalities in the writing of history.”

Eugen Dühring (1833 —1921) was an unflinching critic whose targets included militarism, Marxism, religion, Judaism, and universities.

A versatile scholar, he wrote treatises on philosophy, economics, mathematics, physics, and literature.

In Germany, there’s collective guilt about Jews and the Holocaust; in America, a similar phenomenon shapes discourse around blacks and slavery. 
google.com/amp/s/amp.thea…

Ever since Christianity and Judaism diverged and began to compete with one another, Christianity has developed and sustained its identity in confrontation with Judaism. 
link.springer.com/chapter/10.100…

A Religious Sonderweg?

Reflections on the Sacred and the Secular in the Historiography of Modern Germany

By George S. Williamson
jstor.org/stable/2764471…